Though Barr announced he would not fall for Trump's Obamagate distraction, he is not abandoning his rampant politicization of justice either
Photo: J Scott Applewhite/AP/Shutterstock Attorney General William Barr made a gesture of putative magnanimity when he said at a news conference Monday that he would not, in fact, seek to lock up Barack Obama or Joe Biden. This was, perhaps, a small relief. Barr’s tenure has consisted of a race to the bottom that has gone beyond the worst fears of his critics. At least he has finally identified a floor below which he will not sink.
After having smeared Mueller explicitly, he pushed back ever so gently against Trump’s threats to prosecute his opponent. “But this cannot be and it will not be a tit-for-tat exercise,” and promised not to “allow this to be hijacked by efforts to drum up criminal investigations of either candidate.” To compare Trump’s shrill demands for mob justice with Mueller, even implicitly, is absurd. Mueller, a Republican, was fastidious to a fault. After suppressing any leaks to the media throughout his probe, he cloaked his report in dense legalese, sought to avoid testifying, and then, when called by Congress, delivered a performance so understated it allowed his critics to present him as senile.
Barr has spun the failure to prove a criminal conspiracy into imaginary exoneration. He has then turned this imaginary exoneration against Mueller. Working backward from his false conclusion, he has reframed the investigation as a witch hunt, and treated every prosecution as a scheme to undermine Trump.
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